Filled with His Love
In this podcast we focus on strengthening attachment relationships. Do you want to know how to draw closer to a family member, a friend, or to God? You will find answers in this podcast. Host: Russell T. Osguthorpe, instructional psychologist, church leader, husband, and father..
Episodes
314 episodes
(4.47) Relationships and AI
Elder David A. Bednar recently spoke to young adults about the power and the dangers of AI. He taught how relationships are key to our mortal existence, and how AI can interfere with them. I discuss in this episode how to exercise our moral age...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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12:30
(4.46) Self-Compassion
This is an episode about the second great commandment--love thy neighbor as thyself. We talk a lot in this podcast about our relationships with others and with God, but we also have a relationship with ourselves. The key, I believe, is self com...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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10:54
(4.45) Resilience and Flexibility
Resilience and flexibility are characteristics we all need to develop. I talk about how important these characteristics are on a mission, but also throughout life.
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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12:38
(4.44) Football and Relationships
The BYU Football team can teach us something about relationships. I discuss several lessons we can learn from their performance this year compared with last year.
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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11:19
(4.43) 7 Words to Help You Center Your Life on the Savior Now
We sometimes have a post-conference down day or two. Here are seven words to help us keep that feeling of general conference with us--things we can do right now, today.
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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9:54
(4.42) 5 Ways Living Prophets Bless My Life
General Conference is coming this weekend. I hope you'll tune in, and I hope you'll enjoy the messages. In this episode, I talk about ways living prophets have blessed me throughout my life.
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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11:51
(4.41) Age and Relationships
The young need the old, but the old also need the young. Relationships at all points in life can be among the most rewarding and joy producing events of mortality.
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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10:12
(4.40) Oh Say What Is Truth
This is a 30-year-old recording of a song sung at our son Aaron's mission farewell. So the recording quality is not up to studio quality, but I thought you might enjoy it. My three sons, Russ, Rich, and Aaron sing the song with me, and my wife ...
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Episode 40
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8:01
(4.39) Family Life is Sacred
An old photo reminded me today just how sacred family life is. I hope you'll think back on moments when you have felt that holiness as a family.
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Episode 39
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12:32
(4.38) Happy Birthday, President Nelson--Eight Lessons He Taught Me
President Nelson turns 100 today! First prophet in this dispensation to live that long. I share in this episode personal experiences I've had with President Nelson and the lessons I took from those encounters.
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Episode 38
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15:44
(4.37) 10 Things I Can't Live Without
What are ten things you just can't live without? I try to answer that question with my own 10 things in this episode.
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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13:54
(4.36) Always Ready, Always Willing
Are we always ready and always willing to do what needs to be done? Whatever our stage in life, whatever our role, these two qualities: readiness and willingness are so essential. And they make a huge difference in how we relate to each other a...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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11:27
(4.35) The Lesson is Inside the Learner
Relationships between learner and teacher are paramount if we want really learning to occur. In this episode I discuss how as teachers we need to help draw the lesson out of the learner that is already inside them rather than trying to deliver ...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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14:19
(4.34) Why Study the War Chapters in the Book of Mormon?
The war chapters in the Book of Mormon can be long and grueling, unless we start to think of ways that these chapters apply to us in our own lives. In this episode I take a deeper look into the word--disposition--and talk about ways th...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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10:31
(4.33) Peace I Leave With You
We would all like to feel more internal peace--a feeling of oneness, a feeling of Christ-like unity. The longer one lives, the more one feels a need for peace--"not as the world giveth," but the peace that comes from God.
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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7:48
(4.32) Moemoea No Ananahi--Revelatory Dreams
I talk about two types of dreams--conscioius and subconscious. The conscious dreams are those we think about when we're awake--our long term hopes. The subconscious dreams are those we have at night. I focus specifically on revelatory dreams an...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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10:58
(4.31) The Ultimate Destination is the Home
We often think of the temple as the most sacred place on earth, but Elder Bender reminds us that the home is the ultimate destination--the ultimate place where we can learn to have faith in the Savior.
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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8:36
(4.30) How's Your Microbiome?
Do we consider our body as a temple? How can we treat our body better? And what is the microbiome, and how do we care for it?
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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11:49
(4.29) Agency, Covenants, and Relationships
Agency is the prerequisite for all relationships, and agency underlies all covenants. In this episode I talk about how we can exercise our agency, make and keep covenants so that we can experience covenental love.
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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8:07
(4.28) What is Freedom and What is Agency?
What was the point of the War in Heaven? What is agency--really? Why is it the foundational principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ? I try to address these questions in this episode.
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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9:50
(4.27) Rethinking Stress
Most see stress as a negative force in our lives--something we should avoid. But it can be a friend instead of an enemy. I cite Kelly McGonigal's TED talk in this episode and review some of the research she mentions to show how stress can help ...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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12:49
(4.26) Do We Know the Savior?
How close do we feel to the Savior? How well do we know Him? How can we feel closer? How can we feel like his friend? These are questions I explore in this episode.
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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9:21
(4.25) Missionary Stories and Relationships
When we share the gospel, we form relationships. In this episode I tell how my wife and I met a young man in an elevator, and how that brief, simple meeting led to a rich experience with his brother who had recently been baptized.
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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7:19
(4.24) Renewing a Relationship
In this episode, I recount how Lolly and I visited Tubuai, a small island 400 miles south of Tahiti. This is the island where Addison Pratt landed in 1844--the same island where I served as a missionary in 1968. I talk about an unexpected encou...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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10:41
(4.23) Rationalization: Do You Ever Do It?
Rationalization is a problem for most of us, and if we examine the action closely enough, we find that it distances us from God. When we rationalize, we go against ourselves. We have internal conflict, and that brings frustration and discourage...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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13:02